DECEMBER 23, 1908] A FascicLE or Sovrg Negros Firas 545 
Ficus cuernosensis Elm. n. sp. 
Stocky tree, 6 m. high; branches rigid, twigs gnarly, 
the younger portion yellowish brown tomentose; old bark thick, 
brown or mottled, roughened with reddish colored lenticels. 
Leaves more or less clustered toward the ends of the twigs, 
chiefly alternate, submembranous, much paler green beneath, 
flat, spreading, unequal in size, the normal blades 14 cm. 
long, 7 cm. wide across the middle, oblong, entire, apex 
usually abruptly acute, base usually subinequilaterally obtuse 
or rounded, glabrous above, beneath occasionally strigose on 
the nerves; petiole 1 to 8 cm. long, yellowish brown pubes- 
cent, with age becoming glabrous; nerves prominent beneath, 
drying brown, quite visible from the upper side, the 5 to 
7 lateral pairs ascendingly curved, tips anastomosing, the 
lower pair arising from the base, the reticulations very plain 
from both sides; bud scales nearly 2 cm. long, brown pu- 
bescent on the back only, 
Receptacles clustered. upon 2 to 5 em. long rigid woody 
branched tubercles upon the main branches but occasionally 
extending down along the stem, subglobose or frequently 
somewhat ellipsoid, dull yellowish green when mature, very 
much roughened by brown raised lenticels, rugose in the dry 
state; umbilicus large, raised; peduncle less than 5 mm. 
long, terminated by 3 short acute involucral bracts; flowers 
apparently fertile female only; pedicel at least 1 mm. long, 
curved, enclosed by an equally long truncate gamophyllous 
perianth; ovary ellipsoid or angularly obovoid, 1.5 mm. long, 
1 mm. thick, finely punctate, reddish brown; style about 
as long as the ovary, sublateral, straight or curved upon 
itself, glabrous or with scattering strigose hairs, terminated 
by a slightly enlarged stigma; achenes flattened, mostly a 
trifle oblong in shape, light brown or yellowish brown, keeled. 
Type specimen 9496, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuer- | 
nos Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, March, 
1908. 
A stocky tree in water worn gulches of the fog belt at 
4500 feet. Rare, only two trees were observed in the same 
place. The natives know it as ‘“Tabugay’’. 
Not having staminate flowers there still remains doubt 
as to whether it ae to Covellia or to Neomorphe. . 
